SQL Server 2012 licensing
Microsoft has recently released the licensing overview for SQL Server 2012. A few things has changes from SQL Server 2008,...
2011-11-14
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Blog Posts
SQLInspire - Follow-up & Post Event Notes....
This blog entry is a short post-event follow-up for all our followers and attendees at the event! I will have...
2011-11-14
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SQLInspire NYC 2011
I sit here in a hotel room as I reminisce on this past weekend. This last weekend began with a...
2011-11-14
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SQLInspire NYC 2011
I sit here in a hotel room as I reminisce on this past weekend. This last weekend began with a red-eye trip from Salt Lake to New York. The...
2011-11-14
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The Industry Problem according to @Way0utWest
Steve Jones (blog/@way0utwest) from SQLServerCentral posted his daily editorial today titled "The Industry Problem" in which he describes an article he...
2011-11-14
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TSQL Challenge 63 – Update
If you recall, I like Sudoku. I even posted a script for solving it via TSQL. I went so far...
2011-11-14
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TSQL Challenge 63 – Update
If you recall, I like Sudoku. I even posted a script for solving it via TSQL. I went so far as to enter my script into a TSQL Challenge....
2011-11-14
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An Informal Compendium of SSAS Errors, Part 5: Incorrect Calculation Results, Miscellaneous and MDX Studio Errors
This is the fourth in a series of posts on some SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) errors for which there...
2011-11-13
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Merge Business Logic Handler Conflict Resolver
Introduction
This example demonstrates how to implement a business logic handler for a Merge article to perform custom resolution of conflicting...
2011-11-13
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Merge Business Logic Handler Custom Conflict Resolver
Introduction
This example demonstrates how to implement a business logic handler for a Merge article to perform custom resolution of conflicting...
2011-11-13
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Blogs
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
Generate Embeddings in SQL with Aurora and Bedrock
Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out...
Resolving SQL Server Transaction Log Issues Efficiently
By Arun Sirpal
Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into...
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Question of the Day
Symmetric Key Encryption
If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256, KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase', IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7'; GOSee possible answers